“…The suppression of resistance to cereal rusts carried by H. chilense seems rather lo be due to intergenomic interaction. Similar cases of suppression of resistance have been described in cereal amphiploids (Quinones e( at,, 1972;The & Baker, 1975;Kerber & Green, 1980;Kerber, 1983;Chevre et at,, 1989) as well as in barley addition lines in wheat (Shepherd & Johnson, 1982). Nevertheless, H, chitense resistance to Septoria tritici (Rubiales et at,, 1992a), to Erysiphe graminis (D.R.. unpublished data) and to Metoidogyne naasi (Person-Dedry \ er et at,, 1990) is expressed in tritordeum and there is a dilution of resistance at higher ploidy levels.…”